No love for new movies, Bond wins again

That record is the highest ever opening weekend cume for any non-3D Hollywood release in China.

“The Peanuts Movie” finished second once more, adding $24.2 million to last week’s debut. So far, it has accumulated $413.1 million from worldwide showings. A domestic final in the area of $220M may result for Spectre which has been generating decent but not stellar buzz from ticket buyers.

The Peanuts Movie is the second in line to have held out for a second consecutive week, according to BoxOfficeMojo.

“Spectre” has over all gained a whooping amount of $152.6 million from overseas territories during the weekend. Next weekend, it will be playing in 100 theaters in 40 markets.

From the tuxedo of Sean Connery to an evil lair straight out of You Only Live Twice, this new video from Mr Sunday Movies teases out dozens of callbacks and homages from the new movie. A quick glance at the less-than-impressive $3,227 per-screen average points to this being a flop. However, South Indian regional films such as Ajith Kumar’s “Vedhalam” and Kamal Hassan’s “Thoongavanam” are still going strong in most places.

Seven weeks into its run, ‘The Martian’ is still in the Top 5.

Matt Damon’s flyaway hit “The Martian” dipped to fourth place with $6.7 million in its seventh weekend and a massive $207.4 million total, while Chilean mining drama “The 33” fared OK in its first week out, digging up $5.8 million for No. 5. The Peanuts Movie – the family-accommodating adjustment of the adored Charles Schulz amusing cartoon, highlighting Charlie Brown and Snoopy – saw its second weekend takings drop by 45%, acquiring its aggregate the U.S. to $82.5m (£54m). There’s also “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo“, a Bollywood flick that collected just over $2 million. The Hindi-language musical cracked the top ten, landing in eighth placed with an estimated $2.4 million. Think of how much more it would have made if not for that lengthy runtime.

This week, the Open Road Films movie extended to 60 screens, pulling in nearly $1.4 million. That equates to a mere $889 per-screen. The movie sunk in its limited debut, grossing $95,440 from 10 theaters for a dismal location average of $9,544. Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp (NASDAQ:CMCSA) wanted to stay in business with Jolie Pitt after she directed Unbroken for the studio, and agreed to a $10-M net budget.